Light Made Magic is a creative collaboration between Livia Belkova Krupar and Tim Krupar.
We work primarily with street photography, drawn to light, shadow, reflections, and moments when the ordinary becomes surreal. Our images are less about documenting events and more about noticing transformation.
Light Made Magic is our shared creative space. Here we bring together photography, music, and handcraft.
Tim composes and records original guitar-based music that accompanies some of our projects. Livia works with bookbinding, linocut, and handmade processes. We believe that photographs deserve to exist beyond the screen. Print allows for intimacy, for slowness and attention. Over time, these practices naturally merged, leading us to create zines and limited edition artist books that are carefully sequenced, printed, and assembled by hand. Each edition we produce is created with care for material, rhythm, and presentation.
Light Made Magic is an ongoing practice. We are committed to developing small, thoughtful bodies of work and presenting them in physical form - books, zines, and selected prints - in limited editions.
We work as partners, balancing image, sound, and craft, guided by the belief that when light is truly noticed, it becomes something quietly transformative.
“Light is life. At a fundamental level, everything we see is just a reflection of a vibration. As we age, it’s easy to lose sight of how magical reality really is. Through the lifelong mental repetition of placing each and every thing into its ‘perfect’ conceptual category, we risk taking things for granted, leaving life and everything in it to be only superficially ‘understood’. The principal part of Livia and I getting to know one another revolved around us travelling and walking together in the streets, and as we did so we quickly realized that we both pursue, see, and collect light similarly attempting, as often as is possible, to frame the ‘mundane’ in a way that reveals how light makes magic.”
Tim Krupar
Livia is from Slovakia, Tim from the USA. We met on social media during the pandemic, commenting on each other’s photographs. Our first meeting was in Iceland. What followed were years of traveling between cities and countries before marrying in New York City. We now live and work together in Pittsburgh.